Re: [whatwg] Constraint validation for maxlength

2010-07-27 Thread timeless
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Mounir Lamouri mounir.lamo...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose, like @required, as long as it doesn't break too many websites, we can count on evangelism teams and user feedbacks to fix there websites. Excuse me, but I've watched Evangelism struggle and fail for 10

Re: [whatwg] Timed tracks for video

2010-07-27 Thread Sam Dutton
This has huge potential -- congratulations on such a clear and simple spec. I particularly like the idea of the metadata kind attribute and the ability in WebSRT to include arbitrary metadata. The addCueRange() API has been removed and replaced with a feature based on the subtitle mechanism.

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Roger H�gensen wrote: On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my journal as the meta description, and write one up for other pages, usually replicating some of the content. I'm both looking for and want a solution to avoid

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: The spec says about location.reload(): Navigate the browsing context to the document's current address with replacement enabled. The source browsing context must be the browsing context being navigated. It appears that this is what WebKit and

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Christoph P�per wrote: If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they�ve got one thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: easy links! (Local ones at least, whatever that means.) The best known example is probably double square

Re: [whatwg] Character encoding of document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: Spec change request: Please change the spec to say that document.open() sets the document's character encoding to UTF-8 (There was also a lot of research on the topic, that I haven't quoted here, because frankly it just showed a complete lack of

Re: [whatwg] Typo on Selection API

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Hajime Morita wrote: There is a typo on selection API name: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#selection selection . collapsed(parentNode, offset) Replaces the selection with an empty one at the given position. Throws a WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR exception if

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/27/10 3:00 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On each document.write() on a document.open()ed document, Gecko appends the written string to a cache entry (at the method call time--not at the tokenization time--which makes a difference of the document loads external scripts that also call

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/27/10 4:10 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Does document.open() clear the cache entry? It creates a new one and unpins the old one. Note: the unpinning may or may not happen her depending on what session history does; I haven't double-checked this part. -Boris

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Christoph Päper wrote: I wonder whether HTML could and should provide some sort of similar shortening, i.e. “a hrefFoo/a” or even, just maybe, “aFoo/a”. I later came to the conclusion that this might be a nice thing for HTML editors, but not for browsers.

[whatwg] JS redirects and session history

2010-07-27 Thread Mihai Parparita
I'm investigating a WebKit bug that occurs when navigating to hp.com and then pressing the back button. The full details are at https://webkit.org/b/42861, but briefly: onload hp.com sets window.location.hash to #Product. In Firefox, IE, and Chrome, this does not create a new session history entry

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Christoph Päper christoph.pae...@crissov.de wrote: If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they’ve got one thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: easy links! (Local ones at least, whatever that means.) The best

Re: [whatwg] video resource selection algorithm and NETWORK_NO_SOURCE

2010-07-27 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.comwrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:26 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:53:43 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r4949 - [giow] (0) The CSS rules need to do attribute value matching consistently across [...]

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, L. David Baron wrote: On Thursday 2010-04-01 23:10 -0700, wha...@whatwg.org wrote: [giow] (0) The CSS rules need to do attribute value matching consistently across HTML and XHTML, despite the rules for interpreting author style sheets. Fixing

Re: [whatwg] idea for .zhtml format #html5 #web

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: You can view the first webpage create on earth. We have saved our file from .txt .rtf .doc and now .odt. I love ODF format (.odt and other things) but there is a scope for .zhtml format for document and other purpose. Basically the idea of

Re: [whatwg] Section 2.7.2.1 (HTMLCollection) question

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Perry Smith wrote: From [1] The namedItem(key) method must return the first node in the collection that matches the following requirements: It is an a, applet, area, embed, form, frame, frameset, iframe, img, or object element with a name attribute equal to key, or,

Re: [whatwg] HTMLCollection and HTMLAllCollection suggestion

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Perry Smith wrote: HTMLCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null or one object. HTMLAllCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null, one object, or a collection of objects. I'm a Rails freak and one of the things that they do which I

Re: [whatwg] Input color state: type mismatch

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:37, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: I found type=number also had no typeMismatch. If a user wants to type a negative value, he types '-' first. �This state should make

Re: [whatwg] idea for .zhtml format #html5 #web

2010-07-27 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: You can view the first webpage create on earth. We have saved our file from .txt .rtf .doc and now .odt. I love ODF format (.odt and other things) but there is a scope for

Re: [whatwg] Why [PutForwards=value] for htmlFor output element attribute ?

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: I'm wondering why the [PutForwards=value] extended attribute is needed for the htmlFor output element attribute ? It's an attempt to make it work the same as label's htmlFor, while still supporting the new token-based API. On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Olli

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for secure key-value data stores

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Jeremy Orlow wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Nicholas Zakas wrote: It would be really nice if, in addition to having access to crypto functions, there was an area where I could stick data that would get encrypted automatically (and of course, where I could

Re: [whatwg] Forms feedback

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: The proposal is to mandate that input type=search expose some sort of clear widget in itself, which fires an appropriate event when the user activates it. It already does -- the event is input and in the case you describe, it would fire with value

[whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Charles Pritchard
Hey all, I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... Today from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation of ScrollView. ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; It's similar to overflow: scroll, but instead of showing scroll bars, it

Re: [whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com schrieb am Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:17:20 -0700: Android, iOS (Apple) and YUI are supporting this style of overflow/scrolling. SVG and other vector based viewers have often had panning options. Isn't panning a UA interface issue then? As I understand, it is just

[whatwg] Timed tracks for video

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
I recently added to the HTML spec a mechanism by which external subtitles and captions can be added to videos in HTML. In designing this feature I went through hundreds and hundreds of e-mails, blogs, proposals, etc, trying to get all the key use cases that needed handling. (Replies to the

Re: [whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... Today from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation of ScrollView. ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; I recommend raising this in

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Brett Zamir
On 7/28/2010 6:22 AM, Eduard Pascual wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Christoph Päper christoph.pae...@crissov.de wrote: If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they’ve got one thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: easy links! (Local ones